Arts Underground

What is art, and what can we learn from it? On Arts Underground, host Sarah Williamson explores all different forms of creativity and skill, such as the art of love, war, charisma, food, and comedy. Bringing you the stories and lessons behind art, while taking the time to stop and smell the roses that are the classics.

The Arts Underground airs Saturday from 2-3 PM ... or listen to a podcast below.

Stillness and Change by John Aylward. Poetry by Sharon Singletary of Out Loud Hsv. Some of the Temper Mutations by Carl Schimmel and Richard Strauss's Tod und Verklarung. If these things don't change you, nothing will.

A children's hour today...featuring a visit with Dave Trueb and the Out Loud Poets of Out Loud On Air, and music of Philip Lasser and Claude Debussy. As Tom Robbins is wont to say, it's never too late to have a happy childhood...

It's all about love...and monster movies! On today's show we have another visit from the Out Loud Poets, and we'll also be hearing some voices from The Art-'N'-Soul Society of Expression. Love songs of all kinds...including some new things from The Jayhawks, the Ray Lema Quintet, and Rufus Wainwright. Love ya mean it.

Poetry and music by women artists today. A visit from the Out Loud Poets, featuring Alura Reia, and also a special appearance from poet Kisha Freed, Chief Visionary Officer of Word XPress and member of The Art-'N'-Soul Society of Expression. Kisha's stunning TED talk is at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhdIncXfdJY Thanks again to Bobby Milk for his super-gourmet production capabilities in the Out Loud On Air segment, and to Kimberly Casey for wrangling poets and performers for this piece (not an easy task).

Stars are like magic...at least, to a poet. Composers, they also seem to know it. All things astral on today's show; Out Loud On Air is all aglow. I thank all of you, good list'ners, for list'ning; I hope your lucky stars are glist'ning!

Shiny happy music from the likes of Olivier Messiaen, Guillermo Klein and Alun Hoddinott. Also a visit from the Out Loud Poets, with a poem by Kimberly Casey entitled "Shine." Thanks to Bobby Milk for producing the Out Loud On Air segment this week.

Change is in the air! Change will do you good. Today we revisit Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, based on the poetry of Richard Dehmel, a powerful voice for change. Also some powerful poetry once again from the Out Loud Poets of Flying Monkey Arts Center at the Lowe Mill.

Poets sometimes appear in groups...what do you get when you put six or seven poets in one recording studio? Some pretty amazing recordings, is what...on today's show we'll hear work by Out Loud Poet Shea Stripling, choreographed for an entire group of Out Loud poets and reciters. Also we'll have music by six French composers, Pulitzer Prize-winning music performed by the eight singers of Roomful of Teeth, and a couple of pieces from a six-composer, more-than-six-artist project featuring six musicians...and we're not even going to St. Ives.

The Out Loud Poets visit this week with a delicious recipe by Forest Grayson. We'll also hear Lee Hoiby's one-act opera, Bon Appetit!, featuring Julia Child as the main character, and we'll enjoy a few heaping portions of Claude Bolling's Picnic Suite.

Stories of fathers and sons on this version of the Arts Underground today, featuring pieces by Benjamin Clementine and William Bolcom, and Claude Debussy's cantata, l'Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Son). Also we'll hear some more stellar work by the Out Loud Poets, with Dave Trueb's poem in the spotlight.

Poets on fire with inspiration! We will have some sparkly inspiring work from Lynsey Morandin Bronaugh and the Out Loud Poets this time on the show, plus music of Manuel de Falla, Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, and Richard Wagner, as well as a little something from the Buena Vista Social Club.

Forest Greyson is our featured Out Loud Poet today, with a poem about the unfortunate circumstances of Jake Evans. Also we'll have music by Jerome Moross and Morton Gould that was inspired by famous American murders, and even some motets by an actual murderer himself, the Renaissance composer Gesualdo.

Kristy Jane From-Brown is our featured Out Loud Poet today, as we remember the generations before us with music from ancestral traditions, especially with regard to reverence for the ancestors found in various ancient religions of the world. We'll hear pieces by Hector Angulo, Toumani Diabate, Igor Stravinsky and Jimi Hendrix. Thanks to Bobby Milk for producing the Out Loud Poets today, and thanks to Kimberly Casey for inspiring them, wrangling them, and for her reverent attitude towards creating new traditions in poetry.

The saddest songs are some of the least boring songs. Music by Janis Ian, Violeta Parra and Don McLean today, with poetry by Jeremy Bronaugh, performed by the Out Loud Poets. Thanks again to Bobby Milk and Kimberly Casey and the Out Loud Poets for making this happen.

Let's go to some fun musical and poetical houses today! This show features works by Peter Ivan Edwards, Erik Satie, Danny Elfman, Rob Burger and David Wolfson, and performances by Roomful of Teeth. Also we'll hear the Out Loud Poets in a vocally choreographed version of Kimberly Casey's poem "The Howling House." Thanks to the Out Loud Poets for appearing, and thanks to Bobby Milk for producing this segment.

How exactly did I put this show together? I'll do my best to explain...meanwhile, you might like the music, regardless of how it's framed. Pieces by Rob Burger, Leonard Salzedo, Ludovico Einaudi, Vladimir Martynov, and Howard Skempton on today's show.